The technician of the Pomegranate, Diego
Martinez, he said on the eve of the last league game against Athletic that his team “has made history” and now has the “opportunity to put golden letters” to his season if he wins this Sunday against the people of Bilbao and the results from other fields allow him to qualify for Europe.
Martínez acknowledged this Saturday at a telematic press conference that his players are “tired from the trip”, after returning to Granada from Mallorca on Friday, but “very excited and highly motivated” with the clash in the Nuevo Los Cármenes against Athletic Club that close the course.
“It was a chimera to think at the beginning of the season that at this point we could compete for the sixth or seventh place with teams very different from us economically, socially and in terms of tradition in the First Division,” he said of Granada's options, that he needs to win and that other results favor him to end up in European positions.
The Galician coach highlighted that they live “a unique moment that makes” this Sunday they want to “give it their all” and added that “the words are superfluous, now only the facts that this team has manifested are worth”, in which “all have been vital and basic to get to the last day with 53 points and options to be sixth. “
He assured that the fans will be “proud” of his team even if he cannot go to the field and asked him to “wear the shirt at home and cheer, because his energy” will reach the stadium to “compete among all” the match.
Diego Martínez does not want to think “about the consequences of winning or not winning” against Athletic, indicating that what has led them to the current situation has been “living in the present and each game as if it were the last.”
Motivation to achieve something historic will compensate for physical deficiencies
The technician said that he is only focused on being able to “get the most competitive team possible related to physical and mental sensations”, since they arrive “just right”, something that they will try to “compensate” with other factors such as the fact of living “a unique moment”.
He asserted that they are “ready for all kinds of matches” against Athletic Club and cited “being right, making zero mistakes and transmitting the passion” that his team usually transmits when competing.
“We have won fifteen games, which is outrageous, but to add up each point we have had to exhaust all our resources at all times, and for that it is only worth focusing on the clash,” stressed Martinez, who called Athletic a “rival fortissimo”.
In addition, he welcomed the fact that this Sunday all the teams can play “the eleventh post-confinement game” because that was “something unthinkable in March or April” and praised the establishment of the rule of five changes, stressing that “it was a success” .